Friday, December 14, 2012

Swim test and a race in 2014

I did another swim test on Tuesday. I improved my 50 yards
swim by 1 sec to 35sec. I improved my 200 by 4sec to 2:43. I worsened by 1000
by 17sec to 16:07 (Which is around 1min slower that what I swam last year). Michelle
has a theory about it and it might take a few months to prove it so stay tuned!
(Just kidding. You don’t have to wait for the outcome of this. I will likely
forget about it too.)

I need to look at some naked pictures and figure out where
exactly lats are because I am not sure I do this swimming thing right.

I have received an email today that I had qualified for the
USA Olympic Distance Age-Group Nationals. Hm?!? How can a non-American who has
not even raced an Olympic distance triathlon qualify for USA Olympic distance nationals?
But it all just proves what I already knew and that’s that the qualifying
process for any triathlon age-group champs is one big joke. So leaving my opinion
on the qualifying process itself aside it seems that the race itself indeed
offers some good competition. And it seems that even non-citizens can
participate. Although I am not sure about it because I have not done any deep
research into it since I will not do it. I would like to do it though! But
unless something happens I will be at the super duper awesome can’t wait for training
camp with Michelle at that time.

But that email got me thinking. I am going to
find out what the Slovak triathlon governing body World Age-group Champs qualification
criteria are and put that race as my goal for 2014.